Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-02-12
-MARTlRSBURG INDEPENDENT. !.
Saturday. Feb. 12, 1887.
Farm and Garden Notes, Il


Pure graduated sugar is better
than honey for bees that must be
fed. Dissolve in water, boil and
then feed.
The best way to induce the hens
to lay at this season is to provide
them with warm quarters and feed
meat three or four times per week.
Lime is purifier, and should be
used often as a wash to coops, per
ches and nest boxes. Sprinkle the
places most frequented by them with
air slaked lime.
Crows distribute many tree seeds,
such as acorns and nuts, by plucking
them and carrying them away, drop
ping them again at some distance
from the place of starting.
Carelessness must give way to bus
mess management on the farm. The
farmer should study the markets and
be as ready to take advantage of OPP
portunity as the merchant.
Poultry keeping can be made an
auxiliary to other pursuits with out
infringing upon the time of the keep
er, and will bring in handsome re-
turn for the food and care given
them.
The very best mulch for tender gar
den plants is forest leaves, and quite
independent of their value as win
ter protection, they are worth all they
cost of gathering and drawing for
their beneficial action of the soil.
There is vast difference in the
quality of the first milk and strip
pings. The former contains twice
as much albumen, but the latter five
times as much fat as the former.
There is also more csseine sugar and
ash in the strippings.
Some of our best foriculturists re-
+. commend planting out trees and rose
bushes at this season of the year in
stead of spring. Of course, day
should be chosen for the work when
the ground is dry and open, and the
trees or bushes should be secured to
stakes.
The consumption of food by dairy
stock is paid back in threefold way
milk, growth of stock and the value
of the. manure, which last often bal
ances the first cost of the food. 1t
is in that respect that stock raising
is superior to exclusive grain grow
ing.
1t would not be out of place if far
mers would put their name over their
gates, in order to assist those seek
ing particular residence. The plan
is as applicable in fhe country as in
the city. Even the farms along a
road could be numbered from one
town to another.
The best churning temperature
are between 81 and so degrees in the
summer season and between 60 and
IS degrees in winter. All who churn
should use a thermometer. as no
guess work will answer. A themom-
eter is an indispensable article in the
dairy at all times.
Old bones, old boots leather scraps
and rags are excellent for placing in
the holes intended for grape vines.
1t is mode of getting them out of
the way and also rendering them SER
viceable. They may be of very little
value at first but sooner or later they
will furnish plant food.
When the corn is being fed to the
hogs, it should be remembered that
the warmer and more comfortable
hogs are kept the less corn is requir
ed. Before hogs can fatten the bod
dies must be supplied with sufficient
heat to protect against cold and the
greater the amount of heat saved the
larger and gain in fat.
Always thoroughly wash the nd
ners, wipe with a towel and milk
,y;tb drv hands II ia very imnnrf